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Fractional Order Modeling of a Nonlinear Electromechanical System

(Modelamiento de orden fraccional de un sistema no lineal

electromecánico)

Julián E. Rendón, Carlos E. Mejía 1

Abstract: This paper presents a novel modeling technique for a VTOL electromechanical nonlinear dynamical system, based on fractional order derivatives. The proposed method evaluates the possible fractional differential equations of the electromechanical system model by a comparison against actual measurements and in order to estimate the optimal fractional parameters for the differential operators of the model, an extended Kalman filter was implemented. The main advantages of the fractional model over the classical model are the simultaneous representation of the nonlinear slow dynamics of the system due to the mechanical components and the nonlinear fast dynamics of the electrical components. Keywords: Fractional Calculus; Dynamical Electromechanical System; Fractional Parameters Estimation; Extended Kalman Filter. Resumen: Este artículo presenta una novedosa técnica de modelamiento dinámico no lineal, basada en derivadas de orden fraccional, para un sistema electromecánico de tipo VTOL. El método propuesto estudia la posibilidad de modelar dinámicamente el sistema electromecánico mediante ecuaciones diferenciales de carácter fraccional realizando una comparación con mediciones reales, de tal forma que con base en estas mediciones y un filtro de Kalman extendido, nosotros logremos estimar los parámetros fraccionales óptimos para los operadores diferenciales fraccionales. La ventaja principal del modelamiento fraccional con respecto al modelamiento clásico, radica en que el primero logra representar mejor las diferentes dinámicas lentas y rápidas presentes en los sistemas electromecánicos debidas a las componentes mecánicas y eléctricas respectivamente. Palabras clave: Cálculo Fraccional; Sistema Dinámico Electromecánico; Estimación de Parámetros Fraccionales; Filtro de Kalman Extendido.

1. Introduction Fractional calculus is a field of mathematical analysis in which integro-differential

operators of arbitrary order have an essential role; this field goes back to the times of

Leibniz, around 1695, but in the last few decades it has become a very active research

topic. Some of the current applications are in viscoelastic materials, heat transfer and

diffusion, wave propagation, electrical circuits, electromagnetic theory, modeling and

control of dynamical systems to mention only a few (Miller and Ross, 1993; Tenreiro et al.,

2010; Rahimy, 2010).

This research focuses on the modeling of electromechanical systems by fractional

derivatives. It is motivated and somewhat related to the works by several authors, namely:

1 School of Mathematics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín – Colombia ([email protected], [email protected]).

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1. (Gómez et al., 2016): The authors present an analytical and numerical study of the differential equations for an RLC electric circuits dynamical model by fractional derivatives. The considered system does not include mechanical components and there are no actual measurements.

2. (Chen et al., 2017): This reference introduces a design for DC-DC converters based on fractional order derivatives. There are comparisons with actual frequency measurements.

3. (Schäfer and Krüger, 2006): The behavior of an iron core with saturation is evaluated based on changes in the frequency of the electromagnetic field, behavioral data is saved and used to design a fractional core circuit model. Although in this study actual measurements are used, there are no mechanical components in the system and the fractional parameters are not fully explained.

4. (Özkan, 2014) and (Swain et al., 2017): These references propose fractional PID controls for electromechanical systems with integer order models. As proposed by (Podlubny, 1999), it is important to look for an alternative fractional derivatives model, since the proposed controls exhibit poor performance.

5. (Lazarevi et al., 2016) and (Petrás, 2011): They show the direct relationship between modeling based on fractional derivatives and duality mechanical-electrical of electromechanical systems. The model identification is made in frequency domain.

The aim of this paper is the modeling of a dynamical electromechanical system by

fractional differential equations. Furthermore, the fractional orders of the derivatives are optimal and are estimated by an extended Kalman filter (EKF), based on actual time measurements. As far as we know, this approach is new and worthy.

The paper is organized as follows: Section 2 introduces the fractional derivatives by Grünwald-Letnikov and Caputo, the dynamical models for a VTOL electromechanical system and the EKF estimation procedure. The numerical results are the subject of Section 3 and Section 4 is devoted to the conclusions.

2. Methodology Firstly, we introduce the fractional order derivatives in the sense of Grünwald-Letnikov and Caputo. Subsequently we consider the mathematical model for the VTOL electromechanical system and the method of parameter estimation known as extended Kalman filter.

2.1 Definitions of fractional order derivatives

In the development of the fractional calculus several definitions for the arbitrary order

derivatives and integrals have appeared. The best known are: the Grünwald-Letnikov (GL), the Caputo (C) and the Riemann-Liouville (RL) definitions. The first two are the ones implemented in this work (Podlubny, 1998).

2.1.1 Grünwald - Letnikov derivative

Let . The Grünwald-Letnikov fractional derivative of order ν of a real function f is basically an extension of the backward finite difference formula (Swain et al., 2017). It is given by

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where nh = t - a.

This definition can be easily approximated by taking a discretization parameter h small enough. The numerical approximation is given by

where m – 1 < ν < m.

2.1.2 Caputo derivative

Let . The Caputo fractional derivative of order ν of a real function f is given by

where m – 1 < ν < m.

As stated in (Li and Ma, 2013) and (Podlubny, 1998) the Caputo initial value problem

is equivalent to the Volterra integral equation of the second kind, given by

The Caputo derivative can be approximated by a quadrature rule like a trapezoidal rule, i.e.

Now we proceed to the modeling phase of our work.

2.2 Modeling of an electromechanical system

A Qnet vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) is the electromechanical system

considered here. This system consists on a speed fan with helices (motor actuator)

adjusted to a fixed base by one arm and a counterweight on the other side as it is shown

in Figure 1. The air flow through the propellers affects the dynamics of the system, and

changes the angular position of the weight by the rotation of the arm around the pivot.

Some applications of this system in real world devices are helicopters, rockets, balloons,

and harrier jets (Apkarian et al., 2011).

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Figure 1. Force diagram for the electromechanical system.

2.2.1 Physics of the system

The mechanical, electrical and aerodynamic laws that explain the behavior of the

system, allow us to characterize the nonlinear dynamical model of the system by the

following set of equations:

This set of equations is denoted (NLS). In search of a nearby simpler set of equations, (Apkarian et al., 2011) propose a simplification for the first and the third equations given by

and Ohm's Law respectively.

The modification of the first equation corresponds to the replacement of the thrust

and the drag by the standard torque motor relation .

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Based on this work, we propose a simplified system of equations which is nonlinear.

It maintains the gravitational torque in the first equation and takes into account the

counter-electromotive torque in the arm and rotor angular velocities. The new simplified

nonlinear system, denoted (SNLS), is

The variables and parameters are described in Tables 1 and 2 which were identified

by using the methodology proposed in (Apkarian et al., 2011). Since the actual

measurements of the system are for the variables and , then our analysis is based on

these two variables.

Table 1. Dynamical variables of the VTOL model

Variable Description Unit

Arm angular position

Arm angular velocity ]

DC motor armature current

DC motor angular velocity

DC motor armature voltage

Table 2. Parameters of the VTOL model

Variable Description Unit Value

Arm inertia moment 0.0035

Arm viscous resistance 0.0020

Arm damping constant 0.0289

Thrust constant 6.2900

Drag constant 2.5800

Aerodynamics constant (NL) ] 0.0127

Aerodynamics constant (L) ] 0.0027

Weight torque constant 0.0228

Motor inductance 0.0538

Motor resistance ] 2.0000

Electromotive force constant 0.0189

Motor inertia moment 4.9000

Motor viscous resistance 495.10

Motor torque constant 0.0189

Helix charge torque 0.4421

The estimation of the fractional orders of derivatives of the model is made by

an extended Kalman Filter (EKF) procedure for which we follow (Sierociuk and

Dzieliski, 2006); here a fractional order parameter estimation is proposed by the

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authors, this methodology is based on the Grünwald-Letnikov definition and uses an

EKF structure which is described below.

2.2 EKF structure estimation Consider the following discrete nonlinear system:

where:

is a discrete vector field that relates the system state

variables at instant , with themselves and the uncertainty of modeling at instant

.

is a discrete vector field that relates the system state variables

with the output variables.

and represent modeling uncertainty and measurement noise respectively.

and are the matrices of variance in modeling uncertainty and measurement

noise respectively.

There are a prediction step and a correction step denoted by the indexes ( ) and

( ) respectively. First the initial conditions for the EKF are determined by the following

equations where is the covariance matrix of the states.

Let be the Jacobian matrix of at time step . Thus, the prediction step is

given by

Finally, the correction step or state estimation is given by

where is the Jacobian matrix of at time step .

It should be noted that the state estimation requires system measurements and an

idea of the noise variance present in these measurements and in the model.

3. Results and discussion

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In Figures 2 and 3, a time step response of the three models are shown, this

simulation was done by applying Euler method with step size , and an input

voltage , which are the same step size and voltage of the actual measurements,

which are also shown in the figures. The best agreement with experimental results is

obtained by the simplified nonlinear model (SNLS) and Table 3 is a short summary of this

fact.

Figure 2. Measures and models, step time response.

Figure 3. Measures and models, step time response.

Table 3. RMSE and for different models

Model RMSE RMSE

NL. 3.5337 0.0937

Simpl. NL. 1.4075 0.0937

Simpl L. 2.6982 0.1285

3.1 Fractional model for the system

A fractional version of the simplified nonlinear model is denoted (FSNLS) and is

given by

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To evaluate the performance of the new model a thorough sensitivity analysis is

implemented. The unknown parameters are , and in which are allowed to

take values in . One of the main observations is that if the first and third equations in

(FSNLS) had fractional derivatives, the matching with measurements is optimal. Figures 4

and 5 illustrate this fact.

Figure 4. sensitivity analysis when changes.

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Figure 5. sensitivity analysis when changes.

Based on a sensitivity analysis reported in (Rendón, 2018), the fractional model is

given by (FSNLS) with and . That is, the second and fourth equations are not

fractional. The selection of the fractional derivative orders and is made by an extended

Kalman filter procedure described below.

3.2 Parameter Estimation

In (Sierociuk and Dzieliski, 2006) it is shown that the EKF structure is strongly

coupled to the fractional order parameters of the GL definition. The additional terms in the

definition are considered as modeling noise and the covariance matrix is modified by a

neural network. We take a different strategy given below. It consists on a discrete

redefinition of model (FSNLS) changing GL derivate definition to Caputo derivative

definition and parameters and are included as unknown parameters of the system.

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If we also have the following measured variables and matrix variances of

measurement and modeling

then it is possible to estimate the fractional parameters and based on EKF

methodology. Figure 6 illustrates this point. No attempt on the identification of fractional

orders and was made due to the results of the sensitivity analysis. Notice that the

choices of and are based on the scaling of the measurements and some knowledge

on the measurements and model noise variation.

Figure 6 exhibits stationary behavior for parameter and a less stationary trajectory

for . Several fractional orders can be selected according to our results. Our pick is

and wich are among the best considered.

Table 4 and Figure 7 summarize the results. They indicate that the fractional model

with GL derivative is an improvement over the classical model for this electromechanical

device. We believe our claim can be verified by other researchers. Notice that the

fractional model detects the initial current overshoot and none of the classical models

introduced above are able to do that.

Figure 6. Fractional parameters and estimation.

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Figure 7. Fractional models VS integer model (parameter estimation).

Table 4. RMSE and for fractional models

Fractional Model RMSE RMSE

GL , Caputo , GL ,

Caputo ,

4. Conclusions In this paper a new methodology for fractional modeling of a dynamical

electromechanical nonlinear system is proposed. As a result, it turns out that fractional

order derivatives in two of the four equations of system (FSNLS) provide an improvement

over classical models. We reach this conclusion by considering actual measurements and

a fractional parameter estimation based on an extended Kalman Filter (EKF) process.

Acknowledgements

1. The authors would like to thank professor Mónica Ayde Vallejo Velásquez, director

of Electronics and Control Laboratory at Universidad Nacional de Colombia for allowing us

to take measurements of the VTOL electromechanical system.

2. The authors acknowledge the support provided by Universidad Nacional de

Colombia through the research project Non local operators and operators with

memory, Hermes code number 33154.

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